James Branch Cabell and Richmond-In-Virginia
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In his prime, Vanity Fair nominated James Branch Cabell for "Immortality" on its pages reserved for acclaiming the most select of notable achievers. Favored by the intelligentsia, Cabell was the... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:087805622X
ISBN13:9780878056224
Release Date:January 1993
Publisher:University Press of Mississippi
Length:373 Pages
Weight:2.00 lbs.
Dimensions:1.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"
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Unjustly neglected author...
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
Along with his own autobiographical writings and a chapter in Joe Lee Davis's Twayne book on Cabell, this is the best coverage of the life of this unjustly neglected author. It is, however not without its flaws. There are a few places where information is unnecessarily repeated, even down to the use of identical phrasing; and there's at least one factual howler: Cabell's early friend the novelist Justus Miles Foreman is said to have died on the Titanic in 1912 -- but actually he died on the Lusitania in 1915! There could perhaps have been more interrogation of the racial and social situation in 19c Virginia. But over all a good job...
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